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30 things to do before I’m 31

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

I’m still enjoying these lists of things to do before my next birthday.  I’m still working on things from the last couple years, but having it on a list helps me remember it and keep trying to get there.

So, that said, here’s my list for this coming year:

30 things to do before I’m 31

Random
1. Get a dog
2. Steam clean the carpets
3. Organize my photos better
4. Make the back porch a nicer place to sit
5. Put together our wedding album
6. Read one book per month

Body
7. End the year weighing less than I did when I started it (I’m getting smarter!)
8. Learn how to braid my own hair
9. Don’t get pregnant

People
10. Talk/email Mom at least once a week, preferably more
11. Talk/email Dad at least once a month, preferably more
12. See family for Thanksgiving (maybe?)
13. See family for Christmas
14. Write letters to grandmas

Travel
15. Explore a brown sign, museum, park, or cemetary each month
16. Go to the Barnett family reunion
17. Go to Luke and Krista’s wedding
18. Go to the Biltmore in Asheville, NC
19. Go to the place with the turtles
20. Go to the Ren Faire
21. Go for a walk on the beach at sunrise

Money
22. Make significant progress on the car loan
23. Save up money for a new TV
24. Save up money for that chaise lounge
25. Save up money for a new camera
26. Save up money for the bedroom remodel (new mattress, armoire, matching bed-tables, new bedding, matching valences, blanket rack, trunk at the foot, new TV)

Work
27. Finish my estate book and example
28. Finish my hurricane evacuation plan
29. Stop having breakfast at work
30. Go to the department Christmas party

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I love my husband!

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
  • He put up with me snoozing my alarm several times in the morning.
  • He made the bed.
  • He brought the recycle bin back around the house.
  • He let me know early in the day that he would need a ride home from work
  • He took a few minutes to chat with me over lunch
  • He sent me an encouraging email after I emailed him about a frustrating meeting.
  • He understood and dealt calmly with my frustrations on the way home.
  • He laughed with me and goofed around when I was so hyper after coming home from the gym
  • He fixed in less than a minute a problem with my email that’s been bothering me for weeks.
  • He prepared our dinner
  • He sang along with music that we both enjoy
  • He brought me a slice of cake from downstairs when we were watching TV upstairs.
  • He snuggled with me watching TV
  • He likes several of the same shows as I enjoy
  • He rubbed the ache in my shoulders
  • He tucked me into bed when I went to bed before he did.
  • He soothed me back to sleep when he woke me up and I started spouting nonsense.
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Stepping through my day….

Wednesday, August 19th, 2009

Inspired by Amy:)

5:25 – Wake up, look at the alarm, and realize that I have 30 minutes more I could be sleeping.

5:55 – Hit the snooze button.

6:00 – Hit the snooze button again.

6:03 – Get out of bed before it goes off again.  Ugh.

6:15 – Get out of the shower and start to get ready.  Change clothes two times.  Go downstairs and make my lunch.  Go back upstairs and change clothes again.

6:45 – Kiss Justin good-bye and head out the door.

7:15 – Park my car.

7:25 – Get to my desk and log into the computer.

7:30 – 8:00 – Make and eat my oatmeal while checking my email and scanning documents into the computer that were left from yesterday.

8:00 – 9:00 – Alternate between trying to figure out how to get my macro to work right and doing other projects people ask me to do.

9:00 – 10:00 – Go to a meeting about the changes coming into the system for how we approve documentation.  It’s a very boring meeting.

10:00 – 10:30 – Go back to trying to figure out my macro.

10:30 – 11:00 – Help a coworker try to embed an Excel table into a Word document.  Fail.

11:00 – Run to the other side of the building to talk with my Lean adviser about my project and other Lean stuff.

11:30 – Eat lunch and read a book at my desk.

12:00 – Call Justin and a few other people.

1:00 – 2:00 – Think about what my Lean adviser said and work on my macro and work on things people give me.

2:00 – Lead a Lean meeting about schedules.  It’s a short one just to let everybody know where I think we’re heading.  One of the people I really need to be there is out today.

2:15 – Walk through the demo cabin of the new project.  It’s beautiful!  Follow a coworker as she takes me through another hanger onto another airplane that they’re finishing up the details on.  I’ve been at the company for 3 years and I finally got to step foot onto one of our airplanes!!

3:00 -5:00 – Work on the Excel table crossover into Word problem.  Get it so it works on my computer, but it doesn’t when anyone else opens it on their own computer.  Work on other things people hand me to do.  Get utterly frustrated at Word.

5:00 – 6:00 – Really buckle down and try to work out this macro thing.  I think I need to set objects and collections and create a loop.  Maybe.  How do I do that?

6:00 – Leave work.

6:45 – Get home, change quickly, and walk out the door to meet Justin walking home from the grocery store.

7:00 – Walk Justin home and go out to finish my walk.  Get home, shower, clean house.

8:30 – Start to make dinner with Justin.

9:00 – Eat dinner and clean the kitchen.  Go back upstairs.  Read comics and blogs and listen to Do You Want to Date My Avatar two more times.

10:30 – Write this.  And go to bed.

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Too much to sort through!

Monday, August 3rd, 2009

So I’m having this issue where I want to write and I have no idea what to write about.  There are so many possibilities!

I could write about my weekend, which was mostly fantastically dull and involved watching movies and sleeping and talking with wonderful people on the phone.

Or I could talk about work and how we’re going to attempt an “affinity diagram” tomorrow and I have never done it before and I really hope it works out well.

I could talk about how we’re flying to Burlington, Vermont, again because we’re going for a wedding.  And I keep freaking out because Justin’s jacket is wrinkled and we haven’t gotten it dry cleaned yet.  And we don’t have a rental car yet, and since we’re staying at Justin’s folks’ place, we need a car to get from there to the wedding and all that.  And all these things about weddings keep stressing me the heck out so much that I haven’t even started thinking about freaking out about the traveling part of the whole deal.

I could talk about these books I’m reading about managing money and not undervaluing your worth and taking control of your finances and all the fun and exciting things I’m learning . . . that no one else thinks are fun and exciting at all.  And I’m reading books about marketing and writing business plans and don’t those sound fascinating, too?  No?  They do to me!

I could write about how well we ended up with our finances last month–with Justin making more money than expected and us handling budgeting and saving really well and ending up so far into the black that it’s astonishing how much we could potentially put away if we spent every month not going out to dinner or spending money on fun things and sitting at home sitting on our thumbs.  Which we’re not going to do but we might spend more time looking at the possiblities there.

Which would bring me into talking about our current situation with Justin’s car.

And dang it!  I haven’t bought gifts for Erica or Dad, who both have birthdays in the next 10 days, or for the bride and groom on Saturday.

So what I’m getting at here is that I really have so much going on in my head right now that it’s completely overwhelming and while I’m really having fun with most of it (car stuff = not so much fun, and what the heck is up with my wedding anxiety when I’m not even involved!), I have no idea where to start with the discussing of it all.

But I hope that you’re all doing very well and having a better start to your week than I did (there were ants in my cereal!) and I will babble nonsense at you all again soon.

Cheers!

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Last day of my “vacation”

Friday, July 24th, 2009

Okay, quick update because I’ve been lax lately.  Working backwards!

Today:
I got up and went babysitting earlier than I expected, but it was only for an 11-month old and he slept the entire time I was there.

Yesterday:
I worked with the children’s pastor on the store room at the church office and made it go from total chaotic eyesore to a shining example of organization.  Everyone is very pleased.

And then after grilling dinner and chatting with friends online, we drove Justin’s car to the mechanic’s while no one else was on the road.

Wednesday:
Relaxed, did some projects, made lots of phone calls about business license information and finding a mechanic.  Babysat in the evening for a few hours for a house of sleeping children.

Tuesday:
Drove to Macon with my small group leader/friend with her 11-month old, 3-year old, and 9-year old to drop the oldest off with her grandparents and then drove home again.

Monday:
Babysat for several hours for those same kids (I’ve seen a lot of them this week).  I swear I did something else on Monday but I have no idea what it was.

So, my last week of my vacation has been insane.  I made a chunk of change (gifted, if the unemployment office asks) to help with possible fixes for Justin’s car.

He’s been driving my car most of this month because I have a/c and get better mileage.  But also, for the last week and a half, because his brakes went out.  The mechanic looked at it today and didn’t have good news for us.  We’re going to chat about it tonight and go see the mechanic tomorrow morning.

And I didn’t do everything I’d hoped to do while I was off work, but I did have fun doing what I did and it doesn’t matter that I didn’t cross everything off my list.

Bills are coming due in the next couple weeks and if we managed to make it through this whole month without pulling from savings for anything other than paying for our plane tickets for next month’s wedding, then I’m a tickled lady.  We’ll know for sure in two more weeks.

I’ve made some good progress on my small business, learned a lot about the paperwork and how much more I really need to learn.

I learned a lot about IRAs and different money and retirement things.

I’ve slept in later most mornings that I should have but I don’t regret it one bit.

It’s been a nice break, but I’m ready to get back to work again.

After the weekend.

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